Monday, January 02, 2006

"Crashing the Gate"

Any of you who have been to dailykos.com lately know what I'm talking about here. Crashing the Gate is a new book written by kos (Markos Zuniga) and myDD.com founder Jerome Armstrong. This book promises to be a very good one in terms of analyzing the inability of the Democratic Party to adapt to the times. From the publisher, Chelsea Green:

Crashing the Gate lays bare, with passion and precision, how ineffective, incompetent, and antiquated the Democratic Party establishment has become, and how it has failed to adapt and respond to new realities and challenges.

Its very good to start hearing more about this burning issue. If the Democrats in any part of the country, and especially in as important as a state as Florida, want to win, they will need to dramatically reform themselves. This begins at the local level - with the DECs.

2006 promises to be an interesting year for Democrats. Will they organize the local parties in time to win? Only Democratic party itself will decide this.

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If Democrats in Florida, and indeed around the nation, are going to continue to win elections and therefore promote good, progressive policies - we must have the infrastructure to win.

This blog is devoted to the ongoing conversation about the most critical element in this ever-increasingly complex puzzle: local Democratic organizations. In Florida, they're called Democratic Executive Committees, or DECs for short.

Without functional and effective DECs, its often very difficult if near impossible for Democrats to get elected, and indeed for our two-party system, and therefore democracy, to flourish.

So we welcome your ideas, comments, and occasionally your frustrations. Thanks for participating!